MenloHacks is the official hackathon for the Menlo School in Atherton, CA. We will be gathering 250 high school students this spring for 24 hours to build anything pertaining to hardware or software.
See our live website for current schedule and announcements: live.menlohacks.com.
Requirements
If you are hacking remotely, please upload a 2-3 minute video describing your project that we will show to our judges.
Prizes
$1,699 in prizes
1st place
400 dollars in cash for team + tablet for each member.
2nd place
200 dollars in cash for the team.
3rd place
100 dollars in cash for the team.
Most Entrepreneurial Sponsored by MIT Launch
A Mini Drone for each member of the team.
Best Beginner Hack
The best hack done by a team exclusively composed of first time hackathon attendees will receive a license to JetBrains IDE. Please only opt into this if your team is composed entirely for first time hackers.
Best Hack Hosted on a .TECH Domain
$50 voucher for the winning team.
Best Use of AWS
1TB hard drive for each team member
Punniest Project from Domain.com
Swag bags with SparkFun Redboards to each team member.
Best Developer Tool sponsored by Github
Octocat Statue to the winning team.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Scott Forstall
Former SVP of iOS, Apple
Brienne Ghafourifar
Co-founder, Entefy
Jens Christensen
CEO, Jaunt
Mike Cassidy
VP, Project Loon at Google
Judging Criteria
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Originality
Is your project unique or original? Does it take an interesting or creative approach to a problem? -
Technical Difficulty
Is your project technically impressive? Is it more than just a few mockup designs or a landing page? -
Usefullness
Does your project solve a problem that actually exists? Is it feasible for people to use this product in the real world? -
Polish
Does your project look nice? Does it have a design interface or design?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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